Vista won't install on a RAID set. SOLVED

I just installed my new MSI 790GX-G65 system and I cannot install Vista (32-bit) on any type of 2 disk RAID set that I have tried to create. I can get the installer to see the drive(s) by loading the driver, but after partitioning and formatting, I get a message about "windows cannot find a valid drive for install" or something to that effect. I can install fine using IDE mode and just picking one of the drives. Any help would be appreciated.

Quote from: FrogmanTM on 09-August-09, 05:39:36
Well, I solved it! The problem was with the Vista installation process itself. It turns out that Windows reads information about the boot sequence from the BIOS of the motherboard. It looks at this information to understand what will happen when the system boots for the first time. If you have a USB drive connected to the system and it is listed in the boot config as a bootable device (in my case the BIOS put the USB stick as the second boot device, right after the CD drive, and the RAID volume was listed AFTER the USB stick) - you will probably see this error: "Windows could not determine if this computer contains a valid system volume."
To get past it, I had to re-configure the BIOS Boot options to NOT include my USB drive as a bootable device (or just drop the priority below whatever drive you will be booting from). You can also boot your system without a USB drive installed - not an option for me since I need to install 3rd party raid drivers.
Whew! Thanx for all your help, I am glad I finally figured it out.
Wow dude you're a genius for two days I've been searching and searching and searching wondering why my vista wont install onto my raid 0. I have a DFI board with a 760fx chipset, i have done all the bios updates and brand new raid drivers and to no avail. Found this post and voila. Thanks a lot. Such a simple fix usually the last thing you think of or not think of it at all.

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